Word: malted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Andersons on Father Knows Best, that devours human flesh. Now Middle America gets a return visit from Joe Dante, guerrilla terrorist in Spielbergian suburbia. His Gremlins was a comic nightmare in which midget monsters invade a wonderful-life town and act up like the Hell's Angels in a malt shop. In The 'Burbs, the gremlins are the townspeople themselves, driven to posse paranoia by their suspicions about people whose only sin may be eccentricity. It's sort of a lynch-mob movie for laughs -- laughs that are meant to catch in the back of your throat, like movie-house...
...them -- CBS's Tour of Duty and ABC's China Beach -- add plenty of TV fabric softener to the abrasive material. Each fills its sound track with '60s pop songs, as if Viet Nam were just another trip down nostalgia lane, like high school mixers and afternoons at the malt shop. Both have taken a predominantly male experience and leavened it with female characters and soap-opera story lines closer to Dallas than Saigon...
Meat from fresh leg of mutton is needed. You set water. Throw fat in it. Dress the tarru. Coarse salt, as needed. Hulled cake of malt. Onions, samidu, leek, garlic, milk; you squeeze (them together in order to extract the juice which is to be added in the cooking pot). Then, after cutting up the tarrus, you plunge them in the stock (taken out) from the crock (and previously prepared with the above-mentioned ingredients), in order for them to (begin) cooking in the cauldron. (After which) you place them back in the crock (in order to finish cooking...
...first scene does little to change this impression. A flock of anachronistically granola-esque maidens meander, lamenting over their unrequited love for the poet Reginald Bunthorne. In the context of a set containing an enormous portrait of Elvis, a malt-shop sign and a jukebox, these sentiments seem better suited to tenth-grade teeny-boppers than seasoned literati. Moreover, the characters' "hip" enunciation of phrases like "they're so square" mix poorly with the original "prithee's." To cap it off, Colonel Calverly's (David Magill) patter song with the dragoons, although extremely well sung, is simply neither tuneful...
...authority, as did Minnesota's August Schell's Pilsner and Cold Spring Export "water-made." The best by far was the sophisticated, convincingly German-style Samuel Adams lager, followed by the clear, refreshing Dock Street Amber from Philadelphia and the tangy, cider-like New Amsterdam Amber. The heady, all malt Eau Claire lager from Wisconsin was perhaps the most interesting of all, with a seductive, cocoa scent and savor that makes bracing between-meal sipping. Bottoms...